Blog | Alex Hope Leaphart Photography

Mr. and Mrs. Page | Morningside Church & Cleveland Park | Spartanburg, SC

Morgan and I connected through her mom who works at the bank I bank with. She noticed my passion for my job and asked for me to meet with her newly engaged daughter. When I met with them it was probably the longest meeting I have had with a bride. We hit it off immediately and enjoyed talking about all aspects of wedding planning and really connected throughout the conversation. At the meeting she told me that Austin is in the military. Just that morning they had gotten word

Mr. and Mrs. Hinson | Lions Gate Manor | Spartanburg, SC

Mrs. Cato | Hatcher Garden and Woodland Preserve | Spartanburg, SC

It is special when you get to spend a beautiful day getting to know the heart behind one of your best friends bride to be, and that is exactly how the day was for Sarah’s bridal session! I am ecstatic to finally be able to introduce Mrs. Cato to you all! Sarah, her mom, and I met up in Hatcher Gardens. Y’all this place was magical! From the budding Summer flowers, to the butterflies flying all around, I felt like I had just stepped into a fairy tale. Not only was beauty radia

Mrs. Manditch | Furman University Rose Garden | Greenville, SC

Being an outdoor and natural light photographer, of course my job relies heavily on the weather. Naturally I have about four weather apps on my phone and watch the radar like I am a weather man. For Ashleigh’s bridal session there was no rain in sight but when we showed up to the session the thunder roared and then started to downpour. Ashleigh took it like a champ though and we were able to capture some amazing photos in Furman’s rose garden quickly before we headed inside a

Mr. and Mrs. Cato | Revel Event Center | Greenville, SC

Over the past year I have been putting some major miles on my car going to Columbia and Charleston for weddings. While I could not be more thankful, I was so excited to finally have a wedding in my own backyard in Greenville, SC and I cannot wait to do more! There are so many places I want to shoot in the upstate and beyond, and each day is dream when I get to discover new places, venues, nooks, sceneries, and locations! Revel was one of those locations that absolute blew my

Ned and Catilyn | Rock Hill Wedding | Magnolia Room Reception

I was so happy when Lauren Curry asked me to come second shoot with her for a wedding in Rock Hill. I have followed her for quite some time now and her work was not only beautiful, but also captured pure, raw, and joyous moments. That’s one thing I think makes a photographer stand out. I feel like a lot of people can make people pose and take a pretty photo, but it takes a special person to capture completely candid moments that exudes a person’s personality! Lauren is defin

Elizabeth and Brady | Intimate Greer City Park Wedding

This wedding I was second shooting with Amanda Oliva Photography for the first time. I was so excited to second shoot with her because she mostly shoots in film! My hope is to one day be a hybrid photographer and shoot in both digital and film. Film I believe makes photography into such an art. Using a film camera you have to be intentional about every shot you take because there is less editing you can do with film and a certain amount of shots you can get on a film roll. Lo

Leigh and Jay | Engagement Session | Cleveland Park and Wofford College

Leading up to Leigh and Jay’s engagement session I was so excited for a couple reasons 1. We were going to take photos at one of my favorite places in the World, Wofford College. 2. I knew how well-dressed Leigh and Jay were going to be because Leigh has such a classy and adorable fashion sense and 3. Leigh and Jay are absolutely precious together! But when the weather was calling for snow 2 days before that engagement session I thought for sure Leigh was going to want to res

Sarah and Lee | Engagement Session | Waffle House and Glendale Shoals

I am finally sharing a blog of the infamous Waffle House engagement session! Many have asked "Why Waffle House?" And here’s the story: Cato and Sarah have known each other since high school, but only had to date a short while before knowing they loved each other and wanted to get married! I still remember Cato sitting in Taylor and I’s house talking about if he saw Sarah at church he was going to get the nerve up to ask her on a date. Cato also knows how much of a social medi

Cato and Sarah | City Range Proposal

Cato is my husband’s best friends, and about a week before he proposed he called me and asked me what I was doing next Sunday. I told him that I had something that evening but nothing the rest of the day. All of his response was “we can make that work.” I kept asking “why? Make what work? What is going on?” and in true Cato fashion I had to beg before he told me. He was going to propose to Sarah and wanted me to be there to take pictures of it! And, turns out my husband knew